Quotes Library

November 14, 2025

He preferred to be rather than to seem good.

Sallust (86–35 BC), Roman historian and politician, Bellum Catilinae, 54.6, of Cato the Younger

Is this true of yourself? Or is appearance what matters to you?

Best of all is to seem to others to be as good as you prefer to be and in fact are.

August 11, 2025

7 months ago

We are here to consult the interests and not to obey the will of the people, if we honestly believe that will conflicts with those interests.

September 15, 2025

5 months ago

It may be that the race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong—but that is the way to bet.

September 5, 2025

6 months ago

[On freedom of the press] The intrusion of government into this domain is symptomatic of the disease of this society.

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